The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century by Joel F. Harrington

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

Joel F. Harrington

320 pages • first pub 2013 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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The extraordinary story of a Renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journal.In the late 1500s a Nuremberg man named Frantz Schmidt began to do something utterly remarkable for his era: he started keeping a journa...

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